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Local
Timeline 1700 - 1799
Some
non local info is shown in brackets after date.
1700(circa)
Crown
Hotel built in High Street Warmley. Became the Midland
Railway Hotel. Renamed in the 1970's becoming The
Midland Spinner.
1710 (St Paul's
Cathedral finished)
1712
Willsbridge
Mill built for rolling and splitting hoop iron by
John Pearsall. see road names. Built on the site
of the old manor house of Oldland.
1715 (Robert
Walpole becomes England's first Prime Minister)
1719
Bridgeyate
House is built at Bridgeyate. (AKA Breachgate).
1730
Ventilation
Furnace (known as "Painter's Pit") sunk
in Bitton. Barrs Court Manor was demolished leaving
just the moat and grounds (now a park)
1733 (Start of
The Industrial Revolution in England)
1737
William Champion patented a production method
on the preparation
of Zinc from ore.
1745(circa)
The
Clock Tower Building was built, it formed part of
William Champion's estate. AKA Champion's Pin Factory.
1746
Champion's
Brassworks opened at Tower Road Warmley. (Tower
Lane site) Brass, Copper and Zinc were produced
as well as finished items like pins.
1754
The Warmley works of Champion
had '15 copper furnaces, 12 brass furnaces, 4 spelter
or zinc furnaces, a battery mill, rolling mills
for making plates, rolling and cutting mills for
wire, and a wire mill both of thick and fine drawn
kinds'.
1755(circa)
Warmley
grottos, ornamental lake and gardens constructed
by William Champion.
1758
John Champion obtained Patent
No 726 for the 'sole preparing, vending and selling
of spelter or brass made from a mineral which has
not hitherto been made use of for such purposes'.
This mineral was Zinc Blende or Black Jack, the
sulphide of zinc which was more plentiful than Calamine.
A similar Patent is taken out by his brother, William,
in 1767.
1761 - Oct
John
Wesley preaches at North Common
1766
Richard Haynes (AKA Dick-Boy)
Infamous Highway Robber from Oldland was born (Excecuted
1800)
1767
The Warmley Company faces financial
collapse. It is undertaking brass pin making on
a considerable scale. It tried to make a massive
expansion in its capacity which would seriously
threaten the Bristol Brass Company's existence and
also that of pin makers in Gloucester.
Child
pin makers (6-11 yrs) earned about 1p per day.
1768 (March)
Champion is dismissed
from the Warmley Company by his partners (he was
discovered trying to get out his financial share
of the company because he expected the inevitable
collapse).
1769
Champion is declared bankrupt
and the works are put up for auction. It is finally
purchased by the Bristol Brass Company but never
reaches its old level of output again.
1773 (Boston
Tea Party)
1775
(American War of Independence starts)
1778
Bitton
Vicarage is built.
1780
Rose
Cottage , 94 West Street, Oldland is built. (birthplace
of Sir Bernard Lovell in 1913)
1781(circa)
By
this year the Brass Battery, Wire & Copper
Company of Bristol had moved its copper smelting
operations to Warmley where it took advantage of
being closer to its supplies of coal.
1784 (First balloon
ascent in England)
1789
(Mutiny on HMS Bounty)
1795
26
or possibly only 5 miners are drowned when Hole
Lane Pit in Warmley is flooded (accounts vary).
1799 (Income
Tax introduced)
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